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Funeral For South Boston Murder Victim Amy Lord

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WILBRAHAM, Mass. (CBS/AP) — A funeral was held on Tuesday for Amy Lord, the 24-year-old woman who police said was fatally stabbed after being abducted in South Boston last week and forced to withdraw cash from several ATMs.

Hundreds of people attended a service at St. Cecilia’s Church in Wilbraham to remember Lord.

Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis has characterized Edwin Alemany, 28, who was arrested in connection with two non-fatal attacks on women in the same South Boston neighborhood last week, as a “person of interest” in Lord’s killing.

Davis announced Monday that a detective who was assigned to a case that may have involved Alemany last September has been demoted to patrolman.

In that case, Alemany’s ID was found at the scene of an attack on a woman in the Roxbury neighborhood, but he was never arrested or charged. Davis said a review of the case found that the detective failed to adequately pursue the case.

Police said Lord, a Bentley University graduate who was living in South Boston, was kidnapped last Tuesday and forced to withdraw cash from five banks before she was killed. A bicyclist discovered her body later that day at the Stony Brook Reservation.